Skinny as a beanpole and tall for his age, a young learns that he shares his birthday with Abraham Lincoln, and even has the same big hands and feet. But Lincoln also had a big heart and the great ability to keep a nation together. And what the boy learns as he studies Lincoln opens his mind to great possibilities for his own future.
In this exuberant trip through the year, from winter's steaming mugs of hot cocoa to the mud song of spring, from the hot, hot, hot summer to the nut and pumpkin smells of fall, readers will find all the wonderful things, big and small, fun and funny, that are the reason every season is the ery best season of all!
In 1940, Hans and Margret Rey fled their Paris home as the German army advanced. They began their harrowing journey on bicycles, pedaling to Southern France with children’s book manuscripts among their few possessions. Louise Borden combed primary resources, including Hans Rey’s pocket diaries, to tell this dramatic true story. Archival materials introduce readers to the world of Hans an…
Louise Borden has explained the problem of longitude and its surprising solution in children's terms. Thanks to this fine book, John Harrison and his miraculous timekeepers will now inspire the dreams of young readers. Erik Blegvad's sensitive, warm-hearted illustrations evoke all the creativity of Harrison's workshop and the perils of life abroad ship in the eighteenth century.